Posted on 08/12/2017 11:44:16 AM PDT by be-baw
Did you know when you search the internet, you're not actually searching the whole internet?
Google is the largest search service in the world. But even with trillions of websites indexed, Google’s search only covers about four percent of the net.
So what exactly is the 96 percent of the internet that’s ungoogleable?
The "mysterious" Deep Web, as tech expert Shelly Palmer facetiously called it in an interview with Circa, is the internet that isn’t indexable by search engines.
"It's mostly private information that actually should be private and is set up to be that way," Palmer said.
This is where things like hospital records or friends-only Facebook profiles exist. The majority of the content found in the Deep Web isn't as juicy as its name might lead on, but the part of the Deep Web known as the Dark Web is a different story. The sites there are typically anonymous and require a special browser to access, thus rendering them ungoogleable, in part, to hide the illegal or unsavory activity known to happen there.
When discussing the Dark Web, Palmer changed his tone: "It’s real, and bad stuff happens there ... money laundering, drug trafficking. You can go down the list of things that you don’t want to be found out about."
Of course, there are some public websites that facilitate illegal activity, too, but you wouldn’t know it because plenty of them are made ungoogleable by Google. The search giant, over the years, has got on board with censoring out search results for things like child pornography and some links to pirated media.
Barry Janay, a New York City communications lawyer told Circa, though it’s unclear exactly how much Google censors its search results, anything found to be directly facilitating illegal activity would breach Google's terms of service.
"I would say the web giants like Google will err on the side of caution rather than have massive fines imposed on them," he said.
And in addition to making illegal content ungoogleable, Google also takes requests by people to make themselves made ungoogleable.
The Right to Be Forgotten is already in place in Europe. If a citizen of the EU Googles themselves, realizes they don’t like the results that come up, he or she can demand Google take it down “where the interests in those results appearing are outweighed by the person's privacy rights,” according to the policy.
Despite the introduction of similar legislation in the U.S., no such law exists yet, though Google this year did however introduce tools that allow users to flag “fake news” to be made ungoogleable. But there's also a legal aspect to that, too.
"Defamation ... incorporates untrue statements. And right now, big news is what is truth and what is fake news," Janay broke down.
So, exactly how much web content are you actually getting by only surfing through Google? Probably plenty more than any law abiding citizen would ever want, Palmer assured.
"The public internet is filled heterogeneously with gems and garbage. Almost all of that is searchable on Google."
I Googled Hillary to recall some dirt. Only Pablum appeared.
Duck duck just uses google.
Wow.... that's just insane. Google is sick.
Google is overly blamed for search results.
The results are mostly sorted by popularly.
If “american inventors” gives mostly blacks, that’s because most people searching the term choose those results.
I have not done that yet, but let me guess- Thomas Edison, probably with no one else.
First of all Learn about the DEEP WEB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web Secondly learn about the TOR Browser: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Thirdly get rid of Windows and load Linux: https://www.ubuntu.com/
Fourthly get CCNA certification. Regards,
First of all Learn about the DEEP WEB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web Secondly learn about the TOR Browser: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Thirdly get rid of Windows and load Linux: https://www.ubuntu.com/
Fourthly get CCNA certification. Enlighten Yourself Regards,
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First of all Learn about the DEEP WEB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_web Secondly learn about the TOR Browser: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
Thirdly get rid of Windows and load Linux: https://www.ubuntu.com/
Fourthly get CCNA certification. Regards,
Very interesting.
I searched for American inventor on Bing, and I’m totally happy with their results- This is at the top of the list-
http://www.bing.com/search?pc=COSP&ptag=D011816-A295234DE60&form=CONBDF&conlogo=CT3334485&q=American+inventor. They list John Moses Browning as #2. That sounds right to me! (Even tho it’s in alphabetical order...)
“The Combined Black Workforces of Google, Facebook, and Twitter Could Fit on a Single Jumbo Jet”
“We already knew that Google, Facebook, and Twitter employed relatively few African Americans, but new details show that the gap is truly striking. All three companies have disclosed their full EEO1 reports, detailed accounts of their employees’ race and gender demographics that the law requires them to submit to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The reports show that out of a combined 41,000 Twitter, Facebook, and Google employees, only 758, or 1.8 percent, are black. To put this in perspective, all of those workers could fit onto a single Airbus A380. Have a look:”
During the Cold War, the running Soviet joke was that USRegPatOff was their most prolific inventor.
OK, this is SO ridiculous (and sad)but it is what it is.
Search google images for “european people history” and “white couple with baby”
Sheeeesh !
I should take browsing advice from someone that pasts the same message three times in a row?
Beware online “filter bubbles” | Eli Pariser
Published on May 2, 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s
We’ve been warned.
“The results are mostly sorted by popularly.”
Well, sorta (pun!).
They’re sorted by what gets Google the most ad revenue.
Young and female searchers are catered to. That’s what the advertisers want and pay for.
Technical searching is nuts on Google when a term is alternately used for a product or subject popular to the young.
Frankly I think that is naive. While "sorted by popularity" is largely true, I have a hard time believing that a liberal company staffed by mostly liberal employees would not manipulate the algorithms to favor their cause. And the censoring out of "fake news" is dangerous when liberals determine it.
Google's Liberal Bias May Be Distorting Your Research
Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds - Slashdot
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